The Billionaires Club Av James Montague

<b>A compelling examination of football club ownership in the era of the super-rich</b>Once upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, staggeringly wealthy from oil and gas, from royalty, or from murkier sources. But who are these new masters of the universe? Where did all their money come from? And what do they want with our beautiful game? While almost cloaked in secrecy, the billionaire owner has to raise his head above the bunker when it comes to football ownership ¿ a rare Achilles heel that allows access to worlds normally off limits journalists and outsiders. In the <i>Billionaires Club </i>James Montague delves deeper than anyone ever dared, to tell this story for the first time. He criss-crosses the world ¿ from Dhaka to Doha, from China to Crewe, from St Louis to London, from Bangkok to Belgium ¿ to profile this new elite, their network of money and their influence that defies geographic boundaries.<i>The Bill

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